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...Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes announced that Student Harris was expelled for ''personal misconduct." But to many a Columbia student he became a Cause. STRIKE TODAY! went the word. Daily Columbia struck. Opposition from "the athletic crowd'' which had repeatedly menaced Student Harris only lent zest to the goings-on. Eggs flew, eyes were blacked. stink bombs made embarrassed strikers ill. Harris supporters howled lustily for Free Speech et al. but the strike ended gently. Columbia went back to work. Dean Hawkes departed for Europe leaving Student Harris still expelled...
...Uncle Dudley", written by two clever actor-playwrights, Messrs. Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson. All of the stereotyped elements of light, small-town comedy are introduced in the evening's parade of the ridiculous. There is the sharp-tongued old grandmother who watches fights, domestic and public, with equal zest; there is the inescapable younger brother, of suppliant mien in financial matters and of blatant taste in underwear; there is the selfish, ambitious mother who is determined to carve out a musical career for her daughter, despite the girl's love for the inevitable local swain; and then, of course...
...evolved from green algae, is to us something of transcendant importance, astonishing; sensational, incomprehensible, practicably incredible, perhaps a hoax, not supernatural but in fact super-real. And whatever the possible logical explanation may prove, we cannot deny that the illogical mystery has been for centuries our zest in living...
...past meetings cannot be said to drape today's contest in the robe of tradition, there yet exists that keen rivalry and high interest which is always present when teams of manifest training and ability take to the field. Questions of expediency to one side, there is an undeniable zest to intersectional hostilities which can only be accounted for by the novelty of the contrast presented by strange names and different methods meeting and clashing with those more familiar...
...friend, Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow, The Count of Luxemburg, Gypsy Love). At his debut recital last week (attended by Tenor McCormack and many another musical notable) Tenor Tauber surprised everyone by not wearing his monocle, but he did display the entire range of his versatility. With conventional operatic zest he sang an aria from Mehul's almost forgotten Joseph in Egypt. His loud tones were not always smooth but there was none of the nasal bleating common to most German tenors. Lieder by Schumann and Schubert he sang with expert tenderness, using perhaps too often a pianissimo of exquisite...